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Aug. 7, 2018, 6 p.m.

About this event

Join us as we host a Blockchain & Cryptocurrency Night with Carel de Jager (Blockchain Academy) & Stephen Larkin (Africa New Energies), the fireside chat will revolve around All Things Blockchain & Cryptocurrency.

We trying to remove the confusion and provide education to individuals and organisations, on how they can use the Blockchain technology to understand the benefits and opportunities that exist.

The goal is to get you up to speed with everything what's happening in the world of this new and exciting in Blockchain technology and Cryptocurrency.

Carel de Jager began his career as a Chemical Engineer in the energy industry. He now works as a consultant for the Blockchain Academy, facilitating a wide range of blockchain related training courses and presentations. Through the academy, he also delivers customised, industry-specific training to audiences ranging from the inexperienced to executive level.

Carel is also a public speaker, where he often illustrates his ability to explain technical use cases for blockchain technology in a simple and practical way.

Stephen Larkin is an African innovation expert Stephen Larkin will detail how blockchain technology can tap the enormous potential of Africa. The continent has historically leapfrogged and iterated through necessity. Larkin believes blockchain and efficient funding through cryptocurrency will finally enable a mass leap over the schism of African development economics that can transform the continent for good. He has done the maths to prove it and worked with UN-affiliated NGO's, as well as African Governments, gathering immense real-world experience.

Larkin co-founded Africa New Energies in 2012 with a simple vision - to write an algorithm to find natural gas to generate electricity cheaply enough to give 630 million Africans affordable power for the first time.

He has experience running multiple companies, venture capital, raising funds and using crowdfunding and tax breaks in innovative ways.

Speakers

Carel de Jager

Blockchain

Consultant

Stephen Larkin

Africa New Energies

Founder & CEO

Carel de Jager

Blockchain

Carel de Jager began his career as a Chemical Engineer in the energy industry. He now works as a consultant for the Blockchain Academy, facilitating a wide range of blockchain related training courses and presentations. Through the academy, he also delivers customised, industry-specific training to audiences ranging from the inexperienced to executive level.

Carel is also a public speaker, where he often illustrates his ability to explain technical use cases for blockchain technology in a simple and practical way.

He’s interest in blockchain technology grew from building an Ethereum mining rig in 2016. Being an engineer, he delved into the technicalities of his newly developed hobby and quickly realised that the mathematical problems his mining rig were solving would change the world. The study of this technology became his passion.

As a consultant at the Blockchain Academy, Carel has been invited onto television shows (SABC1), coached numerous executives on the technology and presented about specific aspects of blockchain use cases to clients such as the Johannesburg Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Werksmans Attorneys, Discovery and SAICA. He facilitates the Bitcoin & Blockchain beginners & advanced training courses, the Blockchain for executives and Blockchain for financial institutions courses in Johannesburg and abroad. He frequently speaks at international conferences where he uses practical examples to explain deep technical characteristics of the technology. He also enjoys writing articles and links to these can be found on his social media accounts.

Stephen Larkin

Africa New Energies

Stephen Larkin is an African innovation expert Stephen Larkin will detail how blockchain technology can tap the enormous potential of Africa. The continent has historically leapfrogged and iterated through necessity. Larkin believes blockchain and efficient funding through cryptocurrency will finally enable a mass leap over the schism of African development economics that can transform the continent for good. He has done the maths to prove it and worked with UN-affiliated NGO's, as well as African Governments, gathering immense real-world experience.

Larkin co-founded Africa New Energies in 2012 with a simple vision - to write an algorithm to find natural gas to generate electricity cheaply enough to give 630 million Africans affordable power for the first time.

He has experience running multiple companies, venture capital, raising funds and using crowdfunding and tax breaks in innovative ways.